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- There Is No Silver Bullet January 29th, 2012
- Setting the Record Straight on Scrum and Agile January 25th, 2012
- A Thanksgiving Blog November 25th, 2011
- Notes on the “Non-Linear Birds of a Feather” at LESS2011 November 4th, 2011
- Rocks in a Jar October 30th, 2011
- The Top 10 (Or So) Things I Wish Everyone Knew about Agile October 19th, 2011
- Don’t Compare Apples and Oranges – Inter-Team Velocity Comparisons October 10th, 2011
- Saying “Eliminate Waste” Is Not Useful - Part 1 September 19th, 2011
- The Importance of Mindsets - Part II September 18th, 2011
- The Rationale for a Maximum Sprint Length of 30 Days August 29th, 2011
- Why Lean-Kanban? August 26th, 2011
- Acceptance Tests and Final Walk Through August 24th, 2011
- Transparency and the Tracking Board August 23rd, 2011
- Iteration versus Iteration-less Scheduling August 22nd, 2011
- The Importance of Mindset July 26th, 2011
- Kanban – An Integration of Deming, Ohno, TOC, Satir and Nonaka July 14th, 2011
- Kanban in a Nutshell June 24th, 2011
- Questioning Questions June 2nd, 2011
- The IT Racket and How Team-Centric Agile Methods Support It May 28th, 2011
- The Bonanza Syndrome May 20th, 2011
- Lean Software and Systems Consortium 11 Day 0 May 2nd, 2011
- The Lean-Kanban Manifesto May 1st, 2011
- Elephants in the Room of Agile March 26th, 2011
- I Crossed the Streams, Ray March 3rd, 2011
- The Essential Ingredients of a Navigation System February 26th, 2011
- The Sonny Corleone School of Argument February 22nd, 2011
- My Thoughts On Snowbird 10 February 16th, 2011
- Alan Shalloway Random Thoughts – Snowbird 10 February 11th, 2011
- A Massive Transformation Begins with a Small Change February 9th, 2011
- Why Technical Debt Matters February 4th, 2011
- Big Change Up Front (BCUF) January 1st, 2011
- An Agile Parable November 16th, 2010
- Alan Shalloway Random Thoughts – Going Beyond Scrum November 11th, 2010
- Where my passion comes from November 7th, 2010
- The Case Against Minimalism November 5th, 2010
- CAS 100, Lean 0 in ‘Complexity Vs Lean, the Big Showdown' October 25th, 2010
- How Successful Pilots Often Actually Hurt an Organization October 3rd, 2010
- Estimating Business Value September 28th, 2010
- Common Myths of Kanban September 26th, 2010
- Why ‘Kanban’ Is the Perfect Name After All September 19th, 2010
- A Quick Synopsis of Agile 2010 August 18th, 2010
- Setting the Record Straight: I Love Scrum August 7th, 2010
- Scrum is a Silver Mirror - sometimes July 20th, 2010
- Layers in Tests June 18th, 2010
- The Real Differences between Kanban and Scrum June 7th, 2010
- It’s not just “Does it work?” Ask, “Is it right for me?” June 4th, 2010
- David Anderson’s Kanban book and the myth of early adoption May 25th, 2010
- Notes from the LeanSSC Atlanta 2010 conference May 7th, 2010
- Guest blog for The Agile Executive: Balancing Agile. April 24th, 2010
- Our Models of the World May Not Be Right April 18th, 2010
- Is Lean Based on Deming? April 11th, 2010
- My List of Limitations of Scrum April 7th, 2010
- Confessions of a Lean/Kanbaner Teaching a Scrum Course March 26th, 2010
- 5-Whys Applied to Lean Software Failures March 24th, 2010
- How Understanding Helps Transitions March 8th, 2010
- The Importance of Going Top-Down With Agile Requirements February 28th, 2010
- Going beyond Scrum, Part 1 February 17th, 2010
- Going beyond Scrum, Part 2 February 17th, 2010
- Reflections on a New Year: Part 2 February 17th, 2010
- How to Affect Change February 10th, 2010
- Reflections on a New Year: Part 1 January 19th, 2010
- Smart People, XP and Scrum – Is there a pattern? January 16th, 2010
- Introducing Kanban for Software December 21st, 2009
- There Are Better Alternatives to Scrum December 21st, 2009
- The Need for Leadership in Scrum - Updated December 15th, 2009
- Effective Software Development Without Suffering November 22nd, 2009
- Chapter 2 - The Business Case for Agility November 9th, 2009
- Chapter 3 - The Big Picture November 9th, 2009
- Chapter 4 - Lean Portfolio Management November 9th, 2009
- Chapter 1: A Developer's Guide to Lean Software Development November 1st, 2009
- The 5 whys of Lean as an answer to the But of Scrum October 25th, 2009
- Complex Adaptive Systems Redux October 18th, 2009
- An Overview of Two New Books October 12th, 2009
- Learning to Manage What Matters – Not Always Intuitive October 11th, 2009
- The Difference Between "Inspect and Adapt" and Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) October 10th, 2009
- Pragmatic Lean October 6th, 2009
- Types of Processes - by Don Reinertsen October 6th, 2009
- An Overview of Lean Software Development October 4th, 2009
- The Dangers of Complex Adaptive Systems October 3rd, 2009
- The Foundations of Lean (and Kanban) October 2nd, 2009
- The Essence of Lean (and Kanban) September 30th, 2009
- Comparing Scrum to Lean - Not Quite Apples to Oranges September 28th, 2009
- A New Series September 28th, 2009
- Mid-Management in the Lean-Agile Enterprise: Competencies Required September 18th, 2009
- Creativity, Art, Software and Process September 7th, 2009
- Lean is more than a set of tools August 31st, 2009
- Software Quality and Daily Life August 18th, 2009
- The Case for One-Piece Flow (Part 3/3) July 29th, 2009
- Differences in Beliefs Results in Differences in Approach July 5th, 2009
- Kayaking: How Rationale Aids Experience July 2nd, 2009
- Uncle Bob Weighs In July 1st, 2009
- Patterns are not always discovered June 28th, 2009
- Language Matters June 19th, 2009
- Redefining Lean May 22nd, 2009
- Challenging Why (not if) Scrum Fails May 17th, 2009
- Lean Kanban 2009 - Wow! May 11th, 2009
- Report from Lean Kanban 2009 May 11th, 2009
- A Tale of Two Communities April 30th, 2009
- Emerging Windmills, Part 1 of 2 April 3rd, 2009
- Emerging Windmills, Part 2 of 2 April 3rd, 2009
- Three Things You Gotta Know March 27th, 2009
- Don’t do more with less, do less with more March 21st, 2009
- Getting to the Benefit March 18th, 2009
- Questioning Large Scrum Failure Rates March 15th, 2009
- The Case for One-Piece Flow (Part 2/3) March 10th, 2009
- What's After Lean? February 28th, 2009
- Why Scrum Is Going the Way of XP and Why that’s a Good Thing February 8th, 2009
- Why I Care About What Scrum Can and Cannot Do (informal) January 31st, 2009
- The Strategy Template Pattern (informal) January 18th, 2009
- Alan in Wonderland (informal) January 11th, 2009
- Article blogs and informal blogs January 11th, 2009
- The Case for One-Piece Flow January 5th, 2009
- Scrum and Lean December 7th, 2008
- Economies of Scale (Don't) December 2nd, 2008
- Christmas Tree Lights: An Analogy December 1st, 2008
- Waterfall, Lean and Manufacturing. Idle thoughts. November 28th, 2008
- Using Reporting Services Fields Collection in a TFS Report November 14th, 2008
- Managing Multiple Team Projects in VSTS November 13th, 2008
- Transition Testing - The Cornerstone of Database Agility (Webinar) November 11th, 2008
- Adapter and Facade November 3rd, 2008
- Is Scrum Failing Us? October 12th, 2008
- An Overview of Lean-Agile Software Development October 3rd, 2008
- Avoiding Coupling and Using Mocks (Webinar) September 23rd, 2008
- Database Agility September 23rd, 2008
- Present and the Possible in Software Development September 23rd, 2008
- Scrum and Management: Planning and Focusing September 23rd, 2008
- Understanding Why Scrum Works (Webinar) September 23rd, 2008
- The Importance of Paradigms (Beliefs) September 12th, 2008
- Avoiding Over- and Under-Design in Agile Projects (Webinar) August 20th, 2008
- Managing Requirements in Agile Projects with Scrum Sharp (Webinar) August 20th, 2008
- Time for Agility to Truly Come of Age – Reflections on Agile 2008 August 15th, 2008
- Why Test-Driven Development Really Isn’t Test First August 9th, 2008
- Clarifying Agile Development “Catch-Phrases” August 6th, 2008
- Why Understanding Principles Is Essential in Coaching Others. August 1st, 2008
- Lean-Agile in Tough Times July 28th, 2008
- Design Patterns in an Agile Environment (Webinar) July 26th, 2008
- Coming Up at Agile 2008 July 25th, 2008
- What Does Speed Mean in Lean? July 19th, 2008
- Announcing Scrum#: Scrum for the Enterprise July 17th, 2008
- More Insights on Epics Vs Minimum Marketable Features July 5th, 2008
- Test-Driven Development and Design Patterns June 11th, 2008
- Further Reflections on Just-In-Time May 26th, 2008
- Overcoming Impediments to Test-Driven Development May 12th, 2008
- Theory of Constraints and Lean April 29th, 2008
- Why Looking Into Principles Is Important April 11th, 2008
- A Reflection on Just-In-Time (JIT) April 9th, 2008
- Is There a Fat Agile? April 8th, 2008
- Post-Agile Scrum: The Need for Lean Software Development (webinar) March 14th, 2008
- Writing and Publishing a Book March 12th, 2008
- Praise for Scrum December 3rd, 2007
- Why Lean Now? December 2nd, 2007
- Design, Analysis, and Risk Mitigation November 16th, 2007
- Webinar Recording: Using Lean Thinking to Align People, Processes, and Practices November 13th, 2007
- Recommended Reading: Implementing Toyota’s Product Development System October 31st, 2007
- Where is the Real Work? October 29th, 2007
- Enterprise Agility October 12th, 2007
- Why Not to Focus on a Company’s Culture September 27th, 2007
- Reflections on Agile 2007 and next steps for Agile practitioners September 8th, 2007
- Shalloway’s Law and Shalloway’s Principle August 30th, 2007
- Using Deming to Define Standard Work in Programming August 29th, 2007
- Announcing Scrum Certification by Net Objectives August 13th, 2007
- Webinar: Scaling Scrum with Lean and Design Patterns August 10th, 2007
- Reflections Before Agile 2007 and the Post Agile Movement August 8th, 2007
- Lean-Agile and the Process-Innovation Pendulum July 29th, 2007
- On Becoming A Coach June 29th, 2007
- Lean Anti-Patterns: Overview June 12th, 2007
- Improve your Team or Get a Silver Person? June 7th, 2007
- How Many Projects Should You Work on at a Time? June 6th, 2007
- Banned in Boston June 5th, 2007
- Challenging why (not if) Scrum works May 24th, 2007
- Agile Development - Velocity is THE Measure You Want May 14th, 2007
- Completing the Agile Development Puzzle May 8th, 2007
- Know Thy Audience - Part 2 May 4th, 2007
- Is programming an art or a science? Part II May 1st, 2007
- Is programming an art or a science? Part I April 29th, 2007
- Agile management tools - I'm a believer! April 25th, 2007
- The Limits of Scrum April 18th, 2007
- Agile Estimation and Analysis April 17th, 2007
- Sustainable Agility April 12th, 2007
- Resizing stories April 10th, 2007
- Respect People April 1st, 2007
- Know Thy Audience - Part 1 March 26th, 2007
- Books to Read if You Want to do Technical Coaching March 13th, 2007
- Is "Chicken and Pigs" Counter-Productive? March 10th, 2007
- Lean and What do we do next? - Part 2 January 27th, 2007
- Lean and What do we do next? - Part 1 January 18th, 2007
- Lean and the Reasons for Going Agile - Part 2 December 7th, 2006
- Lean and the Reasons for Going Agile - Part 1 December 1st, 2006
- Lean-Agile and the Project Manager - Part II November 21st, 2006
- Agility noted in Scientific American article (Well, sort of...) November 20th, 2006
- Relentless Improvement and the Mindset of Lean November 20th, 2006
- Lean-Agile and the Project Manager - Part 1 November 17th, 2006
- Lean-Agile is about Collaboration... Patterns Make it Happen November 1st, 2006
- Embrace Change through Patterns and Test October 25th, 2006
- The Role of Lean Leadership October 23rd, 2006
- (Design) Patterns and Lean-Agile October 17th, 2006
- Estimating in Lean-Agile (and a mea culpa) October 17th, 2006
- Perfecting process is part of Lean-Agile (and apologies to iTunes folks) October 17th, 2006
- Lean-Agile, the Senior Developer, and Progressing toward Maturity September 22nd, 2006
- Lean-Agile Meets the Enterprise Data Group September 19th, 2006
- Does writing tests up front really take longer? September 5th, 2006
- Seeing QA's as allies - The Lean-Agile Way August 29th, 2006
- QA is fundamental to process improvement in Lean-Agile August 22nd, 2006
- Notes from Agile 2006 and Comments on Testing August 14th, 2006
- Leaving Feedback... and the value of feedback August 2nd, 2006
- Interviewing Techniques for Staffing Lean-Agile Teams August 1st, 2006
- Lean Values in the Agile Manifesto? July 22nd, 2006
- ScrumMaster Overview – Part 2 July 16th, 2006
- ScrumMaster Overview - Part 1 July 13th, 2006
- A Comic Break July 9th, 2006
- The Technical Aspects of Lean-Agile July 4th, 2006
- People and Process Redux July 2nd, 2006
- All Those Meetings!?! June 29th, 2006
- An Agile Planning Session Observed June 27th, 2006
- Attributes of a Good Product Owner June 27th, 2006
- Encouraging the Team Swarm Pattern for Effective Development June 25th, 2006
- Agile Needs a Product Owner June 20th, 2006
- Simplicity, The 5-Minute Rule and the Refactoring Effort Measure June 16th, 2006
- The Product Development Team and the Voice of the Customer June 13th, 2006
- Agile Project Management Is Good – But It’s Not Enough June 12th, 2006
- People and process Continued June 5th, 2006
- Only Degrade Your Code Intentionally June 3rd, 2006
- Why Incremental Development is Useful June 3rd, 2006
- People and Process June 1st, 2006
- Let the Product Lead May 30th, 2006
